Now
What I'm doing
Teaching
- English 3 to juniors. Currently reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
- AP Language & Composition. Finishing up A Streetcar Named Desire and beginning a unit about what it means to live a Good Life.
Performing
- Working on an upcoming gig with The New Original Vagabonds, the Bob Dylan tribute band I'm in.
- Still trying to learn old-time fiddle.
Learning
- Discovering the so-called "small web": Gopher, Gemini, BBSes, Usenet, RSS feeds.
What I'm reading
Short term
- Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Second reading since high school.
What I have read.
Long term reading projects
- Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust. Just finished Swann's Way and now reading Within A Budding Grove
- Essays by Michel de Montaigne
- Mathematics for the Nonmathematician by Morris Kline
- The Iliad by Homer, in Greek